Sunday, 20 November 2011

Sepia Saturday 102 : Saturday 26 November 2011

"Honest weights, square dealings" : that's Sepia Saturday. The Old Reliable weekly Blog provides a perfect pointer to those who want to link their old images to new memories. So when you are fishing around, trying to think of what to post for Sepia Saturday 102 (on or around Saturday 26th November 2011), take a look at this week's prompt photograph : there is so much going on here that it can give rise to the most complex flights of fancy. It is a 1936 photograph (brought to you courtesy of the Library of Congress) by that great American photographer Walker Evans and it is called "Roadside Stand Near Birmingham, Alabama". You can use this as a theme or you can post off-theme : the choice is yours. Just post, link and then take a look at some of your fellow sepia posters.

32 comments:

I am away Monday and Tuesday so I have put the call up a little earlier than usual. Gives you more time to think. Thanks for all the great contributions to SS101 : I think we are going from strength to strength.

Thought I would post sooner than later this week, as I am still in the throws of taking care of loose ends after moving Mom and Dad in nursing/care homes, while packing for my own move, whew! Good luck Alan! Rosie

why did all these old roadside stands have such strange names... this one - FM Pointer...ours was "Shorty Umble's" but locals called it "Shorty Humble's"; another one I remember was "Starkey's"; but when you told strangers about it, they heard "Star Keys"; and Cocálico's became "Coca Licos"

I'm early as well but what else can one do with a quiet post-Thanksgiving afternoon? I considered posting a few of my own 2005 Blackpool photos (including one of the Ark!) but they're not particularly Sepia and I think I'll save 'em for "The Eff-Stop" international blog!

I get so easily distracted with so many ideas; once someone told me I have the attention span of a cocker spaniel. So it took application of discipline to continue my post this week and finish up from last week. So I did it and now can browse others.

That's a great picture. Lots of opportunity to theme, but unfortunately (for me) a lack of time this weekend. Have just about managed to escape the weekend visitors to submit the smallest of blog posts. Happy Sepia Saturday.

why did all these old roadside stands have such strange names... this one - FM Pointer...ours was "Shorty Umble's" but locals called it "Shorty Humble's"; another one I remember was "Starkey's"; but when you told strangers about it, they heard "Star Keys"; and Cocálico's became "Coca Licos"

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.